Sometimes, God adds even more heat to finish cleansing your heart.
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Refining Gold
Sometimes, God adds even more heat to finish cleansing your heart.
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God likens His purification process to refining gold. You refine gold by heating it. As you heat the gold, it becomes soft and liquid. The impurities rise to the top and you can remove them. Each time you yield to the Spirit, your flesh feels the heat. Sometimes, God adds even more heat to finish cleansing your heart. Some of those deeply rooted, hidden strongholds in your mind need heat to bring them to the surface. That’s why you sometimes must suffer.
Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us. ~ Romans 5:4-5
Why Must You Yield?
Some people have asked why God allows anyone to do evil. Why does God allow you to make any choices at all? Why is it so important that you yield? And why do you have to yield to Him to the point where you rejoice in trouble and suffering? The answer is simple. God won’t force Himself on anyone. Jesus Christ is the head and husband of the church, but the church must desire Him. He’s not like a man who wants a wife and kidnaps a woman and takes her by force. He’s a good God, and He’s just. He doesn’t kidnap you. God calls you. He woos you. He loves and cares for you. He cherishes you. He cultivates a relationship with you. He lets you love Him willingly with a submissive heart rather than forcing Himself and His Life on you.
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Pastors, teachers, and leaders, revitalize your church. Take a look at the series of sessions with roleplaying exercises to learn question-based conversational apologetics. We’ve been taught ways that don’t work. Because of the frustration of doing what doesn’t work, many Christians have just stopped trying to bring others to Christ. This is different. No canned pitches. Casual conversations. Bad ideas self-destruct in the daylight.
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